PROTECT IP Act called unconstitutional by bipartisan group of law professors Doug Fiedor [email protected] "The Supreme Court has previously ruled that speech can't be suppressed without the speaker being given an opportunity to defend his or her actions." Also, the Supreme Court has said a couple times that we need not use our real name on anything we write. Especially with political commentary, there is a long history in this courtly of people commenting under an anonymous pen name. The Court points to The Federalist Papers as one major example. http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/11/protect-ip-act-called-unconstitutional-by-bipartisan-group-of-la/ PROTECT IP Act called unconstitutional by bipartisan group of law professors By Terrence O'Brien posted Jul 11th 2011 10:19PM Turns out Eric Schmidt is not alone in his vehement opposition to the PROTECT IP Act, and the resistance is hardly partisan. A group of over 100 law professors signed a letter (jointly authored by Mark Lemley, David Levine, and David Post) arguing that the legislation working its way through congress is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has previously ruled that speech can't be suppressed without the speaker being given an opportunity to defend his or her actions. Yet, under the bill being advocated for by the RIAA the MPAA, a judge can issue a temporary restraining order that will essentially shutdown a site based only on evidence presented by the government. The letter warns that, not only could overseas domain owners be cheated of the right to due process but, plenty of protected speech could be censored based a single piece of infringing material. As we warned, this can only get nastier and this nascent battle is still only just getting started. Check out the full letter at the source. Watching TV Online http://www.textually.org/tv/archives/2011/07/028919.htm Leave A Comment http://www.textually.org/tv/archives/2011/07/028919.htm 1. To read Alex Gimarc’s columns, go to http://interestingitems.org/ 2. To stay abreast Pro Life news, go to http://www.listcast.com/x?oid=20000g 3. For News with Attitude, email [email protected] with subscribe in the Subj. 4. For free Politically Incorrect news ignored by the American news media, send email to REAL NEWS [email protected] 5. For The Western Center for Journalism, fill out form @ http://fs7.formsite.com/C4Strategies/form377795450/index.html 6. Check out Doug Fiedors web site: http://fiedorreport.blogspot.com/ 7. All of the above, http://groups.google.com/group/richsrants?hl=en -- To join RichsRants, send email to: [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/richsrants?hl=en
